SEATTLE – To snap their three-year winless streak against ranked teams, Mike Hopkins believed the Washington men’s basketball team needed to balance its emotions, execute the game plan and match No. 23 Auburn’s toughness.
For Sunday, and perhaps the rest of the season, the Washington men’s basketball team adopted an axiom and a defensive-minded identity embodied by Franck Kepnang, which epitomized their 73-63 win over Colorado that included two momentum-swinging runs in the final minutes.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Keion Brooks Jr. backed down a defender before turning and draining a midrange jumper in the final minute for one of the biggest shots in one of the Huskies’ biggest wins in recent years — a 68-64 overtime victory over Saint Mary’s in the Wooden Legacy championship game.
Weber State was closing in and cut Washington’s double-digit lead to three points midway in the second quarter when PJ Fuller II responded with an emphatic answer.